Realistic Caves

Rainbeau’s Realistic Caves

Caves that are Actually Caves Instead of Gaping Hellmouths

(A Data Pack for Minecraft 1.19, 1.19.1 & 1.19.2)

OK, sure, I like the new cave biomes. But… 1.19’s cave *generation*? Not a fan. I’ve grown very tired of finding huge holes in the landscape. And the fact that some of those holes open into cave systems so absurdly large that I can literally see from the world’s surface all the way down to deepslate is beyond ridiculous.

This data pack is my attempt to fix that problem. It removes (or at least makes very rare) the overly-large cave entrances and cathedral-sized chambers you so often find in vanilla 1.19 worlds. You’ll still find lush caves, and dripstone caves, and deep dark caves, but the cave systems they’re a part of will be smaller than in vanilla 1.19. You won’t likely come across any caverns 100 blocks across and 50 blocks high. You won’t find yourself inside anything that looks like an entire mountain has been hollowed out. And cave entrances at the world’s surface will look more like actual cave entrances and less like giant maws.

To be clear, this pack does not add anything. Nor does it alter how caves actually look. The caves you come across will look exactly like the small or medium caves that you’d find in a vanilla world. But you won’t find huge caverns, or at least will come across them much less often.

COMPATIBILITY: This data pack ought to be compatible with pretty much any world generation data pack you care to use, unless that pack itself makes significant changes to cave generation. I can say with certainty that it is compatible with both “Terralith” and “William Wythers’ Overhauled Overworld,” though if you’re using it with “Terralith,” you’ll want to make sure that this pack loads after that one.

— Rainbeau Flambe (Darryl Burgdorf)